Padron Rubber-bridge "Indie" Cigar Box Guitar/Cancer Fundraiser Donation
One of the big fads in "indie" music (and stuff spanning from Americana to Taylor Swift) is the "rubber bridge". What does it do? It creates a plunky, muted, deadened, sustainless guitar sound that is, out-of-the-box already about as "lo-fi" as it comes. Even amplified and with bright pickups, it retains that subdued *thonk*. What's more ironic than a cheap old Sears guitar modified with a rubber bridge to give it an extra special new level of exquisite sonic crappiness just waiting for the right pretentious, self-loathing-yet-self-absorbed, minor-key indie guitarist to write their next angsty, depressing song probably lifted from a chord progression from Radiohead? A recycled cigar box resurrected with the same principles. Two independently controlled single coil Strat pickups AND a hidden piezo that can also be blended with them or used on its own? Perfecto! Seriously, this one shocked me how fun it turned out. Put it through a compressor pedal and ...
